Head of Diversity, Equity

1 week ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH Full time

Overview

PepsiCo UK is home to some of the world's most loved food and drink products. Making every day favourites like Walkers, Quaker, Doritos, Pipers and Monster Munch, to name a few We have a fantastic reputation for developing and launching products that our consumers love. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers around the world more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories. The company generated $91 billion in net revenue in 2023. In the UK we pride ourselves on being a great place to work and in 2023 have been awarded the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality (formerly Times Top 50 Employers for Women) for the 18th year in a row and Top Employer for the 12th year in a row.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people. For more information, visit

Here at PepsiCo UK&I we are looking for a passionate Individual to lead the UK Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda, ensuring strategy deployment and tactical oversight of key components in the DE&I, and Culture & Engagement agenda for UKI as a Fixed term contract until August 2025.

As part of the role you will be responsible for strategy creation, content design, process and project management, and stakeholder and vendor management within the DEI and Culture areas. This role will have responsibility for supporting the Europe Community of Practice as the lead market, which gathers other DEI Leads across Europe to ensure an integrated agenda leveraging DEI priorities across the sector. The role will also partner with UK Talent leads, Communication leads, and HR Business Partners to engage key senior leadership stakeholders to integrate local needs with the Global and Sector level priorities.

This role is critical to influencing multiple stakeholders across functions. It is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact in one of the most critical areas of our culture and business

Responsibilities
  • Partner with HRLT and Talent management LT to align plans and deliverables across the DEI and talent agenda, ensuring approach is joined up, gains maximum traction and has the employee at the heart.
  • Lead the UK Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda including supporting the design and execution of the UK DEI strategy current and future.
  • Partner with HRDs and Talent leads to ensure Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, processes and tools are efficient, effective and if required modified to meet Functional needs.
  • Be trusted advisor to the business regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.
  • Create a community of practice among all HRBPs and stakeholders, fostering a desire for functional excellence and collaboration, alignment and best practice and skills sharing across Diversity, Equity and inclusion.
  • Support key Europe Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives including the community of practice, determining feasibility of interventions and balancing global and local priorities.
  • Support tracking, analytics and talent metrics related to Diversity, Equity and inclusion, to monitor ROI, impact of initiatives, and specific targets.
  • Manage external providers and partners for both DE&I and Wellbeing agenda, ensuring partnerships add value and contracts are negotiated in a timely and impactful manner.
  • Represent Pepsico UK DE&I agenda as appropriate across external forums.
  • Responsible for the UK DE&I, ensuring strategy deployment and tactical oversight of key components of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda. Lead the DE&I Council, helping guide and set strategy and execution for critical impact of inclusion and belonging and partner with the ERGs and external partners to deliver on our DE&I aspirations.
  • Support UK Culture agenda by partnering with UK C&E point on various initiatives such as cultural change initiatives, The PepsiCo Way, and other engagement initiatives.
Qualifications
  • Business partner experience, either in Talent or HRBP role.
  • Experience in developing and driving Inclusion and Diversity initiatives.
  • Experience in driving cultural change and employee engagement initiatives.
  • Effective networking skills across a complex stakeholder environment internally and externally.
  • Ability to leverage HR data to create effective strategies.
  • Ability to think strategically and develop tactical action plans to achieve business and people goals.
  • Proven project management skills, with ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders.
  • Experience communicating and influencing at all levels including executives.
  • Strong coaching skills.

Why PepsiCo?

We offer a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, critical Illness cover, flexible working, discounted gym membership, market-leading health and wellbeing support, generous company pension plus so much more. In 2024 we have enhanced our extended parental leave offering, now paying in full for 26 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks for paternity leave for those who have the respective length of service. We're also pushing our benefits to be more pep+ by offering electric cars through salary sacrifice with a partnership with Octopus Energy.

We pride ourselves on our superb work force. The people in this business genuinely care about doing a great job We have a common goal - strive to continuously improve our business performance and our own personal development. With the majority of executive team having been promoted organically, we are continually developing and encouraging our employees to push themselves further and offer them support with their continual learning. Career progression is incredibly important to us, and we provide great opportunities to grow a long term career.

A space to be y( )u

We want each and every PepsiCo employee to feel comfortable just simply being who they are and bring their full self to work. We celebrate what makes us all unique and know that to truly represent the communities around us we must reflect them in our workforce. That's why we've empowered our employees to champion diversity and set up grassroots groups to drive our diversity and inclusion agenda from the ground up, embedding it in our culture. To find out more about our Employee Resource Groups (ERG's) ask our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with the Equality Act 2010, we value diversity at our company; it is an essential part of our success. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, pregnancy or maternity, marital/civil partnerships, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, disability or race including; colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.

To enable you to be at your best we will ensure you are provided with any physical or non-physical adjustments to support your participation in the job application and interview process. Please speak to the Recruiter directly about any support you need.

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